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Bitcoin Weekly 2016 May 25: U.S. Postal Service looks into blockchain-technology, Bitcoin smart contracts by end of 2016, SaruTobi Android app
This week the Bitcoin community saw a fairly slow news cycle but there’s still some gems to be found. The United States Postal Service released a report on Monday outlining the government’s approach to using blockchain-technology to enhance what the post office already does, and add services such as financial services and identity management for ...
Neustar and Limelight partner up to fight DDoS on the open Internet
Neustar, Inc., real-time content neutral provider of information analysis services, and Limelight Networks Inc., global leader in digital content delivery, have joined forces to enable business customers to weather Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The partnership combines Neustar’s DDoS mitigation solution SiteProtect with Limelight’s content delivery network (CDN) to provide what the companies are ...
Software AG webMethods DevOps Edition announced for business design and continuous delivery
End-to-end digital business platform provider Software AG announced today the general availability of its new DevOps Edition for webMethods, a software suite and service for continuous development, testing integration and deployment. Built into the DevOps Edition is a set of tools to allow developers to write and launch apps with shorter lead times. The webMethods ...
Developers Guide to Google I/O 2016 Goodies: Android N, Daydream and Firebase
This year’s Google I/O 2016 ushered in announcements of multiple developer-related projects including the Android N developer preview, the release of Google VR Daydream and the integration of mobile backend service Firebase with the Google Cloud Platform. All of these projects come with their own developer hubs and documentation as well as interesting new features and goodies ...
Ransomware operator TeslaCrypt shuts down, releases master encryption key
Over the past few weeks the developers of the malicious ransomware TeslaCrypt, which would encrypt files or entire computers and hold them hostage, signaled that they were closing down operations. As time went on the project’s website slowly dismantled and payment sites began to vanish. Out of curiosity, a security researcher from ESET North America ...
A guide to Google Daydream VR for developers using Unity or Android
Developers looking to work with newly announced Google VR Daydream (at Google I/O 2016) will have to wait for the next-gen of smartphones to come out with the hardware to support the virtual reality platform, but meanwhile can catch up with the expectations of the specifications and look at supporting APIs and SDKs. Today Google announced ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 May 18: Johoe to join SatoshiLabs, Gatecoin hacked for $2M in cryptocurrency, Thunder Network brings the lightning to the Bitcoin blockchain
This week Blockchain.info is bringing the thunder–in a literary literal sense–with the Thunder Network, a proof-of-concept side-chain system developed from the Lightning Network whitepaper proposal for the Bitcoin blockchain. The Lightning network has been in research and development for some time and suggests a future solution that will allow transactions in Bitcoin to run faster ...
How to: Watch the Google I/O Keynote 360-degree VR live stream video with Google Cardboard
Tomorrow Google I/O 2016 will begin, and in all its glory the visiting audience will bask in the light that is Google’s premier developer conference. Everyone else will have to watch from their PCs and mobile phones—but this year the Internet gets a seat in the audience via 360-degree virtual reality (VR) live streamed video. ...
CircleCI receives $18 million in Series B funding round with Scale Venture Partners
Continuous delivery automation company CircleCI (Circle Internet Services, Inc.) today announced that it has secured $18 million in Series B funding led by Scale Venture Partners. Already existing investors investors DFJ, Baseline Ventures, and Harrison Metal also participated and this brings total financing for the company to $28 million. The company intends to use the new funds to continue ...
The Marvel headset may be the first try at a VR desktop on your phone
An Indigogo campaign called “The Marvel by Finman” claims to be the first attempt to make a virtual reality (VR) operating system (OS). While there have been VR marketplaces and platforms for the current VR devices released–such as the Gear VR marketplace (from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.), SteamVR (from Valve Corporation) and Zeality (Zeality, Inc.) —this would be ...
